A former Transportation Security Administration screener at Los Angeles International Airport who had been suspended for making inappropriate comments about a young passenger’s attire was charged Wednesday in federal court with two counts of making a false threat against the airport terminals.

Nna Alpha Onuoha, a 29-year-old resident of Inglewood, was taken into custody just before midnight Tuesday in Riverside by members of a federal task force, authorities said.

Onuoha appeared in federal court Wednesday in Los Angeles afternoon but was not asked to enter a plea to the charges. He was ordered to remain in custody, with a bond hearing set for Monday. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 25 and arraignment for Oct. 1, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Thom Mrozek said.

According to the federal complaint, Onuoha worked for the TSA from 2006 until Tuesday, when he resigned. He had been given a seven-day suspension in July after making a derogatory comment to a 15-year-old girl about an outfit she was wearing that slightly exposed her midriff, the complaint stated. He told her to “cover up,” the complaint stated.

After resigning at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, Onuoha made several threats against the airport, according to the complaint. At 12:45 p.m., he left a package at the TSA’s LAX headquarters addressed to a security supervisor, the complaint stated. In it was an eight-page letter titled, “The End of America, The End of Satan, we were not defeated,” officials said. There were no suspicious substances on the letter, according to officials.

Next, Onuoha called a TSA checkpoint and told officials to evacuate Terminals 2, 3 and 6 immediately and that “TSA was running out of time,” the complaint stated. He then called Los Angeles World Airports police and recommended they evacuate all terminals, according to the complaint. He told police he was “going to deliver a message to America and the whole world,” the complaint states.

During his call to the checkpoint, Onuoha told the screener that he would be watching to see “if TSA was evacuating the terminals as he had directed,” the complaint stated. The screener who took the call told law enforcement that it was treated as a bomb threat. But a TSA manager told authorities he feared an “active shooter” situation was more likely.

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Onuoha apparently also created a website filled with anti-American diatribes, though the site was not referenced in the federal complaint.

The website, www.satanhasfallen.org, contains photos of Onouha posing with crosses and several letters filled with religious references. In the letters, he mainly praised God and detailed his personal efforts to deal with Satan.

The oftentimes rambling and incoherent writings also take aim at the United States for “electing ungodly people” and allowing immigration and the Constitution to destroy the country. Other posts warn of the dangers of oversleeping and the ways sinful spirits enter a person’s body.

In an Aug. 25 letter, Onuoha seemingly directs his ire toward Mark Frauenfelder, the founder of a popular blog called Boing Boing. It was Frauenfelder’s daughter who was criticized by Onuoha for her outfit at the airport checkpoint. In that message, Onuoha indicated he would soon release a message that, if not obeyed, would reduce America to “nothing just like the nothing that she is.” Later in the letter, Onuoha described Hillary Clinton as Satan’s daughter.

Onuoha was arrested by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Riverside Police Department. His van, parked outside the Harvest Christian Fellowship Church in Riverside, was searched Wednesday morning. No explosives or weapons were found inside, FBI Los Angeles spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.

“Essentially, we had personnel inspecting the van and its contents as well as ruling out any threats,” Eimiller said in an interview. “Part of the investigation is to determine why he was in that parking lot and why he was in Riverside. He was arrested in the van.”

Law enforcement officials received a tip that Onuoha might be in Riverside early Tuesday evening, Eimiller said. “Within a couple of hours, they were able to locate him,” she said.

Task force members also evacuated residents of the 700 block of South Hindry Avenue in Inglewood on Tuesday afternoon so they could conduct a search of Onuoha’s apartment, which is in a housing complex for military veterans, police Capt. James Madia said. They found it empty except for a single note taped inside a closet with a vague threat citing the Sept. 11 anniversary, according to the complaint.

“Taped to the closet door was a paper with the following handwritten message: ‘09/11/2013 THERE WILL BE FIRE! FEAR! FEAR! FEAR!,’ ” the note said, according to the complaint.

Onuoha told an FBI agent that the note meant that he planned to begin preaching on the streets on Sept. 11 and that he had not meant the phone calls or package as threats, the complaint stated.

In a statement, airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon said the LAX security presence was especially strong on Wednesday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Late Wednesday, a report of a suspicious package at a TSA facility on Century Boulevard just east of LAX triggered a brief evacuation of the building. The package was allegedly mailed to the location by Onuoha. The Los Angeles police Bomb Squad cleared the suspicious package at 5:35 p.m.

“The safety and security of the traveling public, employees and visitors is our priority and we are encouraging the traveling public to report all suspicious activity,” Gannon said.